Carey Price is going to lose a hockey game eventually. It’s just not clear how, exactly, that’s going to happen.
Saturday night in Montreal, Price and the Canadiens thoroughly dominated the Detroit Red Wings, 5-0, on the first leg of a Detroit-Chicago Original Six back-to-back weekend. (Al Montoya manned the net for Sunday’s narrow 3-2 loss in Chicago.)
Detroit hardly knew what hit them. Phillip Danault scored early, Paul Byron added a shorthanded breakaway goal, and Shea Weber scored on a power play to close out a 3-goal first period.
It seems almost irrelevant to say it these days, but Price was tested several times against the young Red Wings.